Fabian Lim’s Real Internet Secrets Singapore Workshop – on being a Mentor
Real Internet Secrets Workshop (RIS) is a two and half day intensive internet marketing training by Fabian Lim. This is normally held at Singapore Management University (SMU). The program used to be called the Internet Marketing Bootcamp where I was part of the last batch in March 2009. The last RIS Singapore event (by the way, there is also a RIS Malaysia) was held as usual at SMU last March 26-28, 2010. This time I was one of the mentors of the class for the third time. Our role is to assist the students in any difficulties that they may encounter which were normally related to technical challenges.
Jerome Castaneda as RIS Mentor
The great thing also of being a mentor is you had a chance to experience a fine dining with co-mentors and Fabian Lim at Hyatt Hotel’s Restaurant.
Fabian Lim's-Real Internet-Secret-Mentors
Dominate Google Search Results Page Rank – in just 3 days?
Search Engine Optimization skills building continues to amaze me with surprising results. Last Monday march 15 after just 3 days of posting my blog about making extra money online, I skyrocketed my way on top of Google search engine. It was a very cool feeling to achieve such a feat yet inspired me to even improve my skills better.
As I mentioned in the video, I didn’t learn this from my own since it will take me a very long time to understand the technicalities and the strategies behind SEO. What I did was to follow and learn not only from the experts but who were the best in the fields of Search Engine Marketing. My mentors in this field were Fabian Lim and Simon Leung who are both world class in their own fields of endeavor. You see we went to college or university to pursue our career either as an engineer, lawyer, doctor, accountant, or any related fields of expertise to achieve our current jobs. Yes I am still very much working on a job. But what I’m sharing is if you want to pursue a business in internet marketing or any kind of business you must be willing to learn from the experts by investing in business coaches.
I must say having great mentors was indeed a very big factor. But, I tell you that there’s another thing that you must have in order to get the desired results, that is your ability to act and implement what you’ve learned. Persistence and continuous implementation of strategies were very crucial in your success. I have witnessed a lot of friends who were my classmates who did not make any desired results for whatever excuses they can tell. I was busy with my work. I was attending to my children. These sad excuses seemed to drive them and pursue other things that they find as an opportunity to make a quick buck. It was after all the motivation to make money easily that was their first intention. That was very lame. I must say work very hard on yourself first then add value to people’s lives should be our main intention.
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Make Extra Money Online while Asleep – Is It Really Possible?
Yes, it was indeed very possible. Last Saturday February 27, 2010 when I woke up in the morning, I was surprised yet inspired upon reading my email. I got a commission sale from an affiliate marketing program. Wow, thanks be to God! Oh yes it was really possible to make extra money online. It was time for me to celebrate even if it was just a small amount because I know that the amount will grow without ceiling soon. Again, I remember a very important lesson that I've learned from one of the internet marketing seminars that I attended last year from Christopher Guerriero. He said never make money as your main motivation or never chase money instead pursue personal development. At that time, I silently told Christopher, you're right and you're referring to me right? haha…because I am obsessed with personal growth. I have to really work harder on myself than what I do on my job, a very great advise from a great mentor, Jim Rohn. He said, your income is proportional to the value you give to the marketplace. The more you add value, the more your income grows. I should be able to provide solution to a hungry market with specific problem. You see, I have been working as a Mechanical Engineer for more than a decade yet I was never as excited as I've been in this journey. In my job, I will never make money while I am asleep. I have to exchange my skills with time in a job so that I can add value to my company. Ultimately, my boss or the owner of the business gets the most leverage. Lastly, I want to thank God again for the blessings,the wisdom, and the passion to do what I love doing. Please watch the video that I captured during that day. Please Check out The Complete Guide To Making Money While You Sleep! 
Search Engine Optimization Specialist – Are You on Google First Page?
Let me ask you a question, is your business visible online from the search engines such as google, yahoo or bing?
If not, first let me define what is Search Engine Optimization?
SEO is a very powerful online strategy that is used to achieve high rankings of web pages in search engines for relevant search terms with the aim of driving targeted online visitors to a website. A successful SEO campaign will allow website to position itself to achieve maximum search engine visibility. It will allow website owners like business, organizations, even personal blogs to reach out to a new group of online visitors, internationally.
Why is SEO important?
A properly executed SEO campaign will result in attracting not only targeted traffic, but also long-term sustainable traffic to a website from search engines. What makes it attractive is you don’t have to pay search engines for the traffic generated – it is free, organic.
What are some of the Benefits of SEO?
- Increase targeted traffic to your website
- Increase your company’s presence on the internet
- Wider exposure to attract visitors from all over the world
- Higher volume of sales from your website
- And a high return on investment
Please watch a sample video about first page rankings on google. You can click expand video to a full view in the bottom right corner just before the Vimeo word.
Please check out The Insider SEO Techniques!
Thank You 2009 and An Exciting 2010 Goals!
WOW! 2009 will be my most memorable year! It was the year where I learned to develop my skills in internet marketing. My objective at that time was to learn how I can generate more leads to my network marketing business through pay per click. I learned more than what I expected and the thought of passive residual income while you sleep is such an inevitable and powerful tool. Internet marketing is such a lonely business if you do it by yourself so I highly recommend that you find a mentor just like when you enroll to get a college degree. I developed my skills in the field of search engine marketing – both in search engine optimization and Google adwords. It was my first time to buy a domain name for jeromecastaneda.com and learned to use this powerful blog resource of WordPress. Actually, I managed to rank on the first page for some keywords about my blog. Woohoo! I was able to dominate almost all the sites on the first page for my name Jerome Castaneda and hope to totally dominate it next year 2010. Indeed, wordpress is the king!
I had the chance to attend Tony Robbins Unleashed the Power Within 4 day’s seminar at the Singapore Expo. In those 4 days I had the chance to shape my destiny in my thoughts and managed to do a firewalker on burning coals. It was also in this event that I truly take care about my health especially the food that I ate. I just developed the love for green stuffs, vegetables and fruits. Wow, it was truly an awesome time to remember.
It was the year where I regularly attended a Personal Excellence and Growth Meetup with great life coaches, Mr. Patrick Lim and Ms. Jessica See. I’ve met like minded people and exchanged life experiences and philosophies to grow and become the person that I want to be. There were 2 things that I learned if you want to succeed or grow in life, 1. the people you know or associate with and 2. the books that you’ve read.
2009 was the year I started to grow my spiritual relationship with the Lord God through CFC-FFL Singapore (Couples for Christ – Foundation for Family and Life) as a member for the Servants of the Lord (SOLD) group. Here I got the chance to meet God filled spirited people where there’s no inhibitions about telling your personal challenges in life. Here we prayed for each one’s personal success, family and health miracles. I highly suggest to any individual to join a spiritual or religious group especially if you’re working away from your family just like me.
Now, some people (especially with hardcore employee mindsets) may ask me why on earth should I spend much time learning stuffs that is outside of my job skills as a Mechanical Engineer. My answer is very simple my friend, I have Big Dreams. I am taking Jim Rohn’s advise to work hard on myself than what I do on my job. Personal development builds up my character and my attitude at work. I have the power of concentration and the focus to become a very productive engineer not only at work but with my relationship and communication with my colleagues.
As I looked forward about my 2010 goals, I am very excited about the potential person I can become. Year 2010 will be the start of my 10 year master plan. I’ll continue the commitment of my never ending personal development blog, to become the best father to my son and a loving husband to my wife. I’ll continue to read or listen to books or audiobooks, to meet like minded individuals in personal development and internet marketing fields. I’ll continue to work and apply my skills in internet marketing, to help local businesses generate more sales to their business. I’ll continue to take care of my health by having a regular exercise and watch out on the food that I take. Most of all, I’ll continue to praise and worship God for all the blessings and for the person I become.
Asia Internet Congress 2009 – Living up above expectation!
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The 3rd Asia Internet Congress held at Suntec Convention Centre last October 30 to November 1, 2009 really lived up above my expectations. Even though it was my first time to see this event, it was packed with tons of internet marketing information and tips that a beginner can already apply at home. I asked a friend who already attended the previous AIC events and this is by far the biggest and successful.
I was actually part of the crew of the event being a student of Fabian Lim from his previous classes onInternet Marketing BootCamp. It was fun to be part of the team of the event since you get to meet up close and personal the different speakers. I’m sharing the pictures below together with the speakers. I was actually assigned as part of the customer service during the first day and part of the sales team most of the time. As usual, I managed to take lots of notes from the speaker’s presentation. But most of the time I have go out of the room for a sales preparation meeting for the next speaker but I was assured by my colleague who is not part of the sales team that she will give me a copy of her notes. Wow, thanks a lot Nicole.
I observed that most of the speakers shared about their bad experiences in life that triggered them to become a successful internet marketer. Their war stories are truly inspiring like Patric Chan who had never been to college or university and whose father was a taxi driver and a mother who was a housewife but managed to break through big time in internet marketing. He is known for his Personal Improvement or just search that keyword in google and you’ll know more about him. Fabian Lim’s shared his story about being sick and tired of waking up early to report for a job. Simon Leung, quit his job at Google for 4 and a half years because he was sick of the J.O.B. (Just Over Broke for him). Kishore M. of Online Forex Trading had a different meaning for the word, job which meant Just Obey Boss. That was actually the message of most of the speakers and they took massive actions and committed that they will never have a job again or a need to spend more time with their family. Kishore’s advice of doing your very best time after your office work is the best advice as I really can relate to that. Every time I walked out of the office after my work, I would just say, “Yes, this is the best time of my day as I can do the best things that I wanted to be in Life.” I can still remember Christopher Guerriero’s advise last June 2009 at Global Internet Seminar , “stop chasing money but instead pursue personal development”. For me the best part of being able to attend seminars was to be able to model these successful entrepreneurs and follow their steps that made them who they are at the present and what they can become at the future. The bigger the reason of WHY they became the person they want, the bigger they will become. At the end of the day, it’s a matter of giving away value to the marketplace and your sincerity to help others become successful in whatever you want to achieve in Life. It should therefore be a win-win situation.
You can check the 3 Day agendaof the event and also please take a look with successful internet entrepreneurs below.
Jerome Castaneda's mentor Fabian Lim, the organizer of the Asia Internet Congress
Jerome Castaneda and Simon Leung
Patric Chan and Jerome Castaneda
Jaz Lai and Jerome Castaneda
Jerome Castaneda and Jo Han Mok
David Cavanagh and Jerome Castaneda
Jerome Castaneda and George Clooney looked a like, Sean Roach
Asia Internet Congress Speakers 2009
Book Signing with author Pearlin Siow, Fabian Lim, Jaz Lai and Benjamin Wee
Fabian Lim and Simon Leung with me at the back...hehe!
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You might want to check some results I had with the acquired skills
Asia Internet Congress 2009 – an online business event not to be missed
It will be my first time to attend Asia Internet Congress this coming October 30-November 1, 2009 at Suntec Convention Centre and I am already excited to learn from the successful online entrepreneurs. Well, actually I managed to attend for the first time an internet marketing seminar at Global Internet Seminar last June 2009 at the Expo. You can check about my reviews about the event at GIS. Even though it was a pitch fest to market their programs, I still managed to learn new ideas there without swiping my credit card. There I was able to interact directly to internet marketing gurus like Ewen Chia, Stephen Pierce, Adam Ginsberg,Greg Cesar, Tom Hua, Patric Chan and the other top guns of the online business. Don’t be intimidated or feel bad if these people will sell you their programs either through soft or hard selling. Put yourself into their shoes or any business person, I’m sure you’ll need to sell yourself if you own a business. You need to promote your business so that it will spark an interest for people to buy. You will buy only if you see a value from your perspective. So this is actually a chance to network with other motivated people who are already successful in this business. Who knows we can create a joint venture business with each other or create a mastermind group to learn continuously since learning by yourself will be very much challenging.
Btw, this event will also be held at Wisma MCA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this 23-25th of October see more info at Asia Internet Congress in Malaysia. The event is hosted by Fabian Lim, a respectable top online entrepreneur.
PS
Before I forget, an ongoing early bird discount 40sgd or RM70 off the normal price is until October 15 only. Hope to see you and learn together at the event. Please visit to learn more at AIC2009SG or AIC2009MY
PS2
1. They are giving away 2 Complimentary Tickets for Wealth Summit Asia on 10 & 11 October 2009 Suntec Convention Centre (Hall 6)Singapore
2. Also a 3 Months Subscription To WorldInternetAcademy.com For FREE! - USD40 for 3 Months
PS3
Checkout the the complete Agenda. And Get to know them personally as the Asia’s Internet Dragons.
Global Internet Seminar day3
Just like day 2, the last day was as exciting and a great learning experience. I missed the opening sharing of the CEO of Success Resources, Mr. Richard Tan but nevertheless still got a good seat in the second row. Thanks to my friend Joy Ongkiko for reserving seats for us with Je Malata who came later.
The first marketer was Adam Ginsberg, the only guru on eBay for the whole event. He presented on how to buy, sell and profit on the internet thru eBay. He came up with some cool software (beta) that is very simple, step by step through an audience who volunteered on stage. Wow, $100 was awarded to the volunteer just by following Adam’s instruction on what to key in, not bad huh. It was actually my first time to learn about the ins and outs of eBay since I have no experience. He’ll be back on August 21-23 for the eBay boot camp here in Singapore.
Next speaker was Stephen Pierce. The first half of his talk was more on inspirational, motivational stuffs about his experiences from nothing. In his rare bad experience, he told us that he got hit by a bullet in his knees due to his involvement with a gang fight. That was the turning point of his life and worked his way up to where he is now as one of the top internet marketers in the world.
According to him, there are 8 characteristics of the perfect internet money making opportunities for you;
- has rabid market of buyers
- system finds, gets, keeps and grows customers for you
- has multiple products deep sales funnel
- allows you to make +$1000 per sale
- pays you on other peoples marketing (affiliates)
- allows you to earn 24/7 (as money never sleeps)
- stuffs monthly residual cash into your bank account
- allows you to focus on one thing
“Internet does not require your permission but it requires your participation.”
On the last half of his talk he showed step by step hands on how to create a blogspot and used this as an affiliate campaign for Amazon (sort of your landing page for a particular product).
Steps to create an internet income were as follows;
- Create it (your website)
- Ping it (pingler.com)
- Social bookmark it
- Directories RSS, twitter
- Build of links
You need to sell what people buy and only sell to the buyers.
Hot tip: search on Amazon on bestsellers.
Next marketer was an upcoming 28 y.o. guy from Vince Tan who took his parents together with him (seated in the front row just in front of us). My friend was struck by this guy, she couldn’t imagined how it was to be mentored by him. She told me that she will just stare at him all day.hahaha. Imagination.
Vince started showing his success accomplishments. His first was the product Adsense Black Hat Edition which generated him SGD 14,500. His next hit was a great idea that they created while they were on an MRT about their sendUsTo.US campaign with their goal of being able to attend Mike Filsaime seminar which generated them a 100K SGD (not bad huh). And successes after success like BiggestFireSaledotCom, MegaRedPacketdotCom.
He shared his 3 Fundamental concepts which were;
1.) Triple W – win, win, and win
2.) Massiveness (packaging, instant products + Double Quattro)
3.) Guru Mind Control (Joint Venture/Network) – here he showed how he used skills on communications by being the Master, The Force, The Negotiator and The Joker.
From these concepts he showed case studies about the products I mentioned above one by one.
Lastly, I think it was the best quote I heard from him, “Internet Marketing is not Rocket Science but it’s enough Science to Rocket your Income”. Wow!
The last speaker was Greg Cesar (every time I listened to him, he reminds me of Eddie Murphy). He’s a very down to earth guy who will stop his talk just for a pose if someone’s taking a photo shot. He’s just funny. By the way, I got his business card which he managed to give after the talk.
Kidding aside, he’s the Google Adwords guru that will teach you to get qualified traffic with less money to spend. He knows what it takes to make your site sell.
I love quotes so here’s another one that I take note of “The Quality of your Life will be based on the Quality of your Questions”.
So why Adwords because of traffic, control, fast, instant and easier.
Here are some Mindset Marketing Questions;
- Who are they?
- What are they looking for?
- Where are they getting it?
- Why do they want it?
- When do they need it?
There are lots of stuffs that I didn’t include here since I’m still deciphering my notes but if you’re looking for instant traffic at less bids for Adwords Campaign. Greg Cesar is the guy.
In the end, the event was very successful as what Success Resources have been always known for. I’m sure everyone learned a lot and gained new friends as well as I did.
Global Internet Seminar day 2
I managed to attend the 2nd day Global Internet Seminar at the Expo, Singapore which started 9am until 7pm. I didn’t attend the first day obviously since I still have a work in the office. The first speaker of the day was the CEO of Success Resources (organizer of the event) Mr. Richard Tan who shared his extraordinary experience in organizing a big event in UK with just 2 months to fill the 5,000 capacity auditorium. Richard was followed by Christopher Guerriero an expert in the health and wellness thru his site HealthlifeDotCom. I learned a new idea from him about how to create a book in 30 days or less in just 7 simple steps.
He gave us some words similar to T. Harv Eker’s (TFAR method). His was Words – Thoughts- Feelings- Actions- Results. Hhhmm…looked familiar to me. There were 3 things in the mind of the average people; 1. Wait 2. Watch 3. Wish. Can you relate to this one? Then am sorry you’re an average person.
Here’s a saying that also caught me “True Wealth - stop chasing money instead chase self improvement” Wow, amen to that my friend!
Hot tip: How to create you book in 30 days or less!
1. Choose you subject (Passion + experience) – 1 full day
2. Write out main topics to cover in bullet points. - Half day max
3. Gather information for each topic. – 2-3 days
4. Record everything you know each topic individually (1 day)
5. Transcribe it (48 hours)
6. Send it to an editor to make you sound professional.
7. Get it typeset and professional looking.
There were just so much in his program that I can’t write it here. Check him out in Success Magazine as he was featured there as the time of this event. He was also being endorsed by Bob Proctor of the phenomenal The Secret.
The next speaker was Ewen Chia, World’s #1 Super Affiliate Internet Marketing Guy. It was his second talk from the first day (which I missed). Just like other speakers, he shared his humble life story. There were 3 simple steps to making online money fast, first is NICHE, second was WEBSITE (obviously) and last VISITORS.
Well what really caught our attention there was his Instant Website Generator which all you need to do is fill up the blanks like your affiliate logins. I would say it’s a website for the lazy (easy to setup) and it promotes itself with dynamic self updating with fresh contents, news article, videos. Unfortunately, he’s not selling the software and only available if you enrol to his seminar as one of the many packages.
Btw, he showed his clickbank account to show the difference from the first day (sort of a challenge). I can’t remember the figures but I bet it’s worth your month’s salary. Haha!
Tom Hua, Internet Business in-A-Box guy from Australia but originally from China (correct me if I’m wrong). First impression was his height (small) but with a big heart, a true blue entrepreneur with lots of business both online and offline. Just like Ewen Chia, his concepts of internet marketing are much the same, 1. Product 2. Website 3. Traffic. I didn’t take much notes here since he gave us a link of his site where in we can download the PowerPoint. Not bad huh since you can just purely concentrate on his ideas without being caught in scribbling notes. (Let me know if you want a piece of it…hmm)
Patric Chan, (How to Start Your Own Internet Business Today) is a guy that I can also relate to since this guy is into personal development. He shared his LEAP (stands for Leverage Expert And Partnership).
His LEAP formulas were;
- Product Ownership
- Leverage on other Business to Promote you
- Create an Info Product
- Membership program for Passive Income
- Partnership with Others
- Become an Expert in Your Niche
- Use an automation system
AFAIK, he’ll be having a 2 day leap program this coming July 11&12 here in Singapore.
Lastly, Andy Hun and looked like an upcoming guru in the scene since only few people were left (about less than 30). He shared about SkyQuestCom program which was own by Richard Tan.
I came a bit late since its an hour MRT ride to home.
Checkout Day 3.
Internet Marketing Bootcamp 1st Day
We just finished our first day of 3 day event of Internet Marketing Bootcamp by Fabian Lim at Singapore Management University . I must say that Fabian really rocked, and was very passionate in his topic. He was just the best and is worth investing in his program. After attending his preview about internet marketing I was convinced that this guy walks his talk and really adds a lot a value. I have been doing internet network marketing previously and I want to enhance my knowledge in this field which I really see as a very big market. It was my first time to have my own domain name (http://www.jeromecastaneda.com/) and create a simple landing page for a site (World Internet Academy). A lot of hands-on were done during this day since some free services were offered as part of the program like reseller hosting, 1profitsystem, autoresponder system, google adwords account, some affiliate accounts just to name a few.
Bye for now and I have to do some homework about creating ad campaigns in google adwords. I’m starting my journey.
